Improvement in ornamental transfers



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PHILIP KNEI'PP, OF PHILADELPl-IlA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES SEARLE & SONS, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 95,356, dated September 28, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN ORNAMENTAL TRANSFERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern.-

JAMES S. EARLE 8E Sons, of Philadelphia, Pennsyb vania, have invented an Improvement in the-Ornamentation of Wooden and other Objects; and I do' hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention consists in ornamcnting objects by an improvement described hereafter in the process known as decalcomania, which, as ordinarily practised, demands tedious manipulation, owing to the preparation of the picture for transferring by coating the design or pattern within the outlines with' the fixing-varnish by means of a fine brush.

1n practising my improvement, say on a walnut picture-frame, l first coat that portion of the wood to be decorated with alcohol-varnish, which may be made ,of shellac and gum-sandarach dissolved in alcohol, and after a few hours I rub down the varnished portion with pulverized brim'stoue and water, or linseed-oil, to produce a smooth surface, which should then be covered thinly with the prepared oil, described hereafter, and should dry hard. 7

The surface is now in a condition to receive the ornaments, which are transferred by simply placing the prepared paper, ornamented face downward, on the prepared surface, and rubbed on the back, after which the paper is moistened with adamp sponge, and then easily withdrawn, leaving behind the gilt or colored design.

Immediately after this, the whole transferred design, as well as the nndecorated portions of the frame, may be washed well, without danger of removing the decorations.

After receiving a coat of alcohol-varnish, the frame may be handled and packed for transportation.

1n transferring designs to gold and gilt surfaces, or

to-white or other enamelled or light-colored woods, they should be coated with the prepared oil only, the oiled surface being permitted to dry hard before applying the paper, after the withdrawal of which the decorated surface may be washed and varnished, as before. 7

When white or light-colored surfaces have to be coated with varnish, the latter should have white shellac, instead of brown shellac, as an ingredient.

While my invention is especially applicable to the ornamentation of picture and mirror frames, and mouldings generally, as well as to piano-flames, cottags, and other furniture, it may be applied to metal, lacquered, enamelled, and other surfaces, or to polished and plain woods, and other objects, withthe best results, and with great facility, owing to the paper, or other material containing the design to be trans ferrcd, being applied without submitting it to the usual tedious preparatory process.

The prepared oil referred to abovemay, when used for transferring to dark surfaces, consist of, linseed-oil, one quart; lithargc, one pound; oilofvitriol, one ounce; asphaltum, four ounces; and sugar of lead, two ounces; or the prepared oil may, when the transfer has to be made to gilt and white surfaces, consist of sugar of lead boiled in poppy-oil one hour.

The prepared paper may be made in various ways, one mode consisting in sizing ordinary. paper and then printing thereon the design in lithographic colors, or

bronze, or gold. 0n moistening the sheet, the size is softened so as to permit the design to'be detached from the paper. I claim, as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The decorating of surfaces, by the process substantially as herein set fo th.

{In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to tl is specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. PHILIP KNEIPP. Witnesses:

WILLIAMS Oonn, J r., Gnsmv MAJOR. 

